In 2011, 73% of children met the recommendations, with boys (76%) scoring higher than girls (70%).
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The figure for girls, however, was up significantly from 64% in 2008, with boys showing little change.
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Even if the parents didn't care about girls mixing with boys, obstacles would remain for the teenage girl, Arora said.
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Sharing a classroom with boys aged between five and eight, Kimani is the only pupil to brandish a walking stick and hearing aid.
Now, Hollywood lore says boys prefer movies with boys as heroes something that becomes self-fulfilling, of course, if girls can't get cast in comparable roles.
Because experts' understanding of the typical features of the condition is primarily based on research with boys, girls may be missed or misdiagnosed, he said.
Asian-American parents, he says, are stricter with girls than with boys.
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Kalaidzhi, who are almost all devout Orthodox Christians, are known to remove girls from school at 15 or even earlier to keep them from mixing with boys.
Calder's voice could be heard on the tapes, which were taken at Scout camps in the 1980s and 1990s, and he could also be seen interacting with boys.
So you traveled extensively across the country to meet with boys, teachers and parents to explore the emotional life of boys across America, from the suburbs to inner cities.
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On my second visit, I heard about some of the family reunifications that had occurred in the interim, with boys either being picked up by or delivered to a parent whom some had not seen in years.
When she was in junior high, she lobbied the principal to take shop class with the boys rather than bake muffins with the girls.
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Mr Barton said schools in Iraq worked on a rota system, with girls and boys along with staff members swapping half way through the day.
Proud parents Victoria and David, along with their boys, have created a series of one-off designs with the hope of inspiring the nation to rise to the challenge for Sport Relief 2010.
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They in particular mentioned Lieutenant Kevin Gallagher of the NYPD, who, when they knew that their sons were missing, Lieutenant Gallagher made a point of staying with them and doing everything he could so that ultimately they knew what had happened with their boys and were able to recover their bodies, and has been with them as a source of support ever since.
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Some of the little tricks that always work with younger boys are things like always sitting in a sofa, or a chair with big, soft arms if possible.
"She told me she'd go target shooting with her boys pretty often, " Holmes said.
We heard from Matthew Adonakan who has been with the boys choir at Blackburn Cathedral for around five years.
He sat on a stool in a cold room with other boys pasting labels onto bottles of shoe polish.
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"I'm ecstatic, I'm in shock, " Theresa Nash, soon after hearing the news and getting off the phone with her boys.
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My friend, Dan Steinberg, who blogs about sports for the Washington Post, has fallen in love with the boys from Iceland.
Pepperidge Farm started because a mother with two boys who had allergies needed to give them some bread they could eat.
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Their grandfather, Bob Hauser, said at a news conference late Tuesday that he had spoken with the boys before they left Cuba.
Sheriff Darby told CNN on the phone they had looked into the incident with the boys on the road and found nothing.
While it is well documented that the Baseball Hall of Fame is hardly populated with choir boys and altar servers, the B.
Shapinga's football journey began some two decades ago, playing with the boys of her neighborhood despite the disapproval of her family and community.
It went by so quickly and I just wish I'd taken it in a bit more and celebrated a bit more with the boys.
Next to a videogame parlor, busy with teenage boys, won't work.
It is also critical to work with men and boys, in partnership with women and girls, to replace gender stereotypes with shared dignity and mutual respect.
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